The Lost Shtetl Museum in Lithuania is significant because it reflects international cooperation and interest.

In 1941, Jacob Gens was given an unthinkable task: deciding which Jewish people would be turned over to the Germans. Gens, ...

On January 27, the world pauses to remember the Holocaust. Lithuania joins the ceremonies—somber statements, wreaths, expressions of grief. Yet inside Lithuania, a different message is engraved in ...

The tragedy is not that Lithuania cannot tell the truth. It is that it can, but cannot survive as presently constituted if it ...

Lithuania’s outgoing chancellor agreed in principle to a lump sum transfer $47 million to the country’s Jewish community as compensation for lost Holocaust-era property. Chancellor Deividas Matulionis ...

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At the Lost Shtetl Museum in Šeduva, Lithuania, we are committed to telling one of the Holocaust's most devastating yet often ...

A Jewish group is outraged by Lithuania’s plans to convert a sports complex into a convention center at the site of a historic Jewish cemetery, reversing decades of advocacy to commemorate the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Lithuania’s Jewish community urged the Baltic nation’s president to intervene to prevent a party involved in an antisemitic scandal from becoming part of a new ruling coalition. The ...

Jewish leaders in Lithuania announced Tuesday they were temporarily closing the Vilnius Synagogue and the community's headquarters due to threats, citing an "atmosphere of rising tension". The move ...

The chief rabbi of Lithuania said he is considering splitting the community over a disagreement with its lay leader about plans for construction atop what used to be a Jewish cemetery. Chaim Burshtein ...